Done 3 sets of 800 meters for PT today. Each with a 30second rest period inbetween. I was in the fast group, of three groups, and coming in the first few positions in the fast group for each run. First time, I done it in 2 minutes 30, second time in 2:44 and third time in 3:00. Not including the rests (which of course sped up the average time) I done 2.4 km in 8:14, that's about a mile and a half.

And all that after doing a few miles for boxing training at 6am as well! A few miles and a hundred or so pressups! The staff didn't quite think out the pressup routine... we ran down a street, each time we passed a lamppost we would do some pressupts. 1 at the first lamppost, 2 at the second, 3 at the third, etc. However there were 20 lamp posts. The total pressups would have been 210... but NO-ONE kept it up! We sprinted inbetween each lamp post, after the first 10 lamp posts I'd done 55 pressups and then slacked off as did many others. My upper body isn't as good as my running.

The formula to calculate the total number of pressups we were supposed to do is (n + 1) * (n/2) (The maths: Assuming an even number of lampposts, you pair up opposite lamp posts, so between the first and last lamp posts you'd do 1 + 20 pressups (21), the second and second to last you'd do 2 + 19 = 21, the third and third to last you'd do 3 + 18 = 21... this way, you get 10 pairs of 21 pressups = 210 pressups). As a formula that is number of pressups = number of lamp posts (n) + 1, times by half the number of lampposts. total = (n+1) * (n/2). This formula works for any sequence where you are adding up numbers that go up in ones... 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6, etc, so at 10 lamp posts I'd done (10 + 1) * (10/2) = 11 * 5 = 55 pressups. (If the total number of elements is ODD, the formula doesn't work because you can't properly pair an odd number of items. Then, you remove the middle number, apply the formula, then add the middle number to the result.

Tags: boxing, fitness, maths, running

I was rumaging through some drawers the other day... and found a collection of Orange and BT bills dating back a cool three years! Wow! It DID enable me to make a chart of my Orange Text Message usage and Call Times across 6 months. Cool. Geek. I then threw them all away.

I've been doing boxing training. So far it's just basic fitness (no skills) in order to find out who really wants to do it. As such, the training sessions are three times a week, at 5am and 6am. Which means up, dressed, watered & shaved by then. Very early. Have been doing runs and outdoor training. I do very well. After some running we done situps, pressups and squat thrusts. I done 85 squat thrusts in 2 minutes, the highest out of everyone there! That's my best achievement... in other areas, I'm just a good runner. I doubt I'll be a good boxer... but the training is good.

This weekend I am going to Salisbury plain to a training village for a fun weekend of urban assualt courses, climbing through sewers, being taught how to make and throw molotov cocktails and clear a house with grenades and rifles, military style. Fun fun fun... all paid for by my work! On the downside it's also been described as physically demanding (which sounds like hard work, ick!), and as a sleep deprivation exercise. Hmmm.

I will have news, soon, about where I will be spending the next four years! Although IN that four years I will be going on extended periods abroad, doing my actual work rather than just training and doing repair work.

I've spent this week fixing VERY OLD telegraph machines. They're like a combination typewriter and morse code device. Very old, very stubborn and clunky. But very satisfying! Based on old 8080 processors, circa 1985!

Tags: army, army training, boxing, finance, fitness, salisbury plain
Current Mood: happy

Tonight I done kickboxing and loved it! I came out completely utterly exhausted, something which the BJJ (last night) didn't do for me. I want upper body strength, it's my weakspot. So... boxing. And because I actively like proper kicking, running and dancing, I thought I may as well do kickboxing.

( BJJ and kickboxing )

Tags: bjj, boxing, brazilian jiu jitsu, dancing, fitness, kickboxing, running, slimelight, thai kickboxing
Current Mood: happy